Charles Enderlinhttp://newsbusters.org/taxonomy/term/1875/0
enNBC’s Engel Compares Iran Govt Murder of Woman to Dubious Israeli Shooting of Mohammed al-Durahttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2009/06/25/nbc-s-engel-compares-iran-govt-murder-of-woman-to-dubious-israeli-shooting-of%20mohammed-al-dura
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img border="0" align="right" width="240" src="http://media.eyeblast.org/newsbusters/static/2009/06/2009-06-22-MSNBC-CWO-Eng4.jpg" height="180" />On Monday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, as host Keith Olbermann and NBC News correspondent Richard Engel discussed the apparent murder of 27-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan by Iranian government forces as part of the crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, and the possibility that she will become the visual symbol for her country’s pro-democracy movement because her death was recorded, Engel brought up the infamous Mohammed al-Dura video clip from September 2000 and claimed that the Palestinian boy was shot and killed by Israeli troops – as if this story were not in dispute – even though many who have <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2008/05/wall_street_journal_weighs_in.html">examined the case</a> closely over the years believe not only that the boy was not hit by Israeli bullets, but that the video purporting to document his shooting and death <a href="http://www.seconddraft.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=62&amp;Itemid=80">was likely a hoax.</a></p><p>The exchange from Monday's Countdown show, in which both Engel and Olbermann assumed the al-Dura story to be undisputed:</p><blockquote><p>KEITH OLBERMANN: To the point of Neda Soltan, I don’t know that there’s ever been a revolution, or even a near revolution, that did not have an identifiable face, a martyr, you think of everything from Tiananmen Square to Lexington and Concord-</p><p>RICHARD ENGEL: I was thinking more, remember Mohammed al-Dura, the boy who was shot in Gaza-</p><p>OLBERMANN: Yes, yes.</p><p>ENGEL: -in his father’s arms-</p><p>OLBERMANN: Yes.</p><p>ENGEL: -and who became a symbol of injustice? I think this is a similar moment.</p></blockquote></div></div></div>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:31:34 +0000Brad Wilmouth30137 at http://newsbusters.orgMedia Ran Charges Israeli Troops Killed Boy, Ignore Evidence Israel Innocenthttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/05/29/media-ran-story-israel-troops-shooting-boy-ignore-evidence-israel-inn
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img border="0" align="right" width="300" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/AlDurrah1.jpg" height="180" />When France 2 TV <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXPx5faFA_A">helped stoke a new wave of anti-Semitism and anti-Western sentiment and violence</a> by presenting the world footage it claimed to show the Israeli military targeting and killing a Palestinian boy, Mohammed al-Dura, a scene that has been invoked by Osama bin Laden and many other terrorists and suicide bombers, the American news media also ran the story, showing the footage numerous times on major television news shows. But evidence has mounted over the years that Israeli troops likely were not the ones producing the gunfire seen in the video. And the sources of the footage at France 2 TV are under increasing fire for their role in the matter, last week <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/">losing a court battle</a> to media critic Philippe Karsenty, who goes so far as to charge that the al-Dura footage was actually a staged scene, and that the boy may still be alive, part of what has become a reportedly common practice of Palestinian film makers as they record scenes of fake violence to be used as propaganda. A look at such filmmaking and acting has been examined in the documentary <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_B1H-1opys">Pallywood</a>, complete with a corpse in a fake funeral procession that gets up on its own after falling off the stretcher after the &quot;Jenin massacre&quot; hoax, and an ambulance that arrives immediately next to the body of a man literally two seconds after he is supposedly shot. CBS's 60 Minutes was among those accused of being duped into using scenes of staged violence as if they were real. (Transcripts follow) </div></div></div>Thu, 29 May 2008 12:45:23 +0000Brad Wilmouth23168 at http://newsbusters.orgExpert: IDF Didn't Shoot Intifada Icon Mohammad al-Dura; Media Yawnhttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/lynn-davidson/2008/03/03/expert-idf-didnt-shoot-intifada-icon-mohammad-al-dura-media-yawn
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img border="0" align="right" width="1" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/AlDurrah1.jpg" alt="Iconic image of Mohammad al-Dura" height="1" /><img border="0" align="right" width="220" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/AlDurrah1.jpg" alt="Iconic image of Mohammad al-Dura" height="150" />An important trial in France revealed the<a href="http://www.seconddraft.org/history_pallywood.php"> Pallywood</a> fauxtography machine and its media pipeline. Last week, expert testimony supported media critic Philippe Karsenty's claim that France 2 reporter Charles Enderlin's coverage of the <a href="http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2008/02/spotlight-on-la.html">Mohammad al-Dura affair</a> was doctored and <a href="http://www.seconddraft.org/aldurah_essay_staged.php">staged</a>. </p><p>Karsenty appealed a verdict that he libeled Enderlin when he questioned the claim that Israel killed the boy who was crouching behind his father during a gunfight between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian shooters. </p><p>Al-Dura's iconic image sped around the world and sold stamps, T shirts and the Second Intifada. It inspired violence, riots, terrorism and became a 21st century Blood Libel. On March 3, Israel's Haaretz reported the stunning news that if the boy and his father were actually shot at all, <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/959836.html">the bullets could not have come from Israel's position, only the Palestinians'</a> (bold mine throughout):</p></div></div></div>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:11:33 +0000Lynn Davidson20567 at http://newsbusters.orgFrench Reporter: Arafat Donating Blood for 9/11 Was Staged Photo Ophttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/lynn-davidson/2008/01/27/french-reporter-arafat-donating-blood-9-11-was-staged-photo-op
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><img border="0" align="right" width="150" src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1540000/images/_1540605_arafat150afp.jpg" height="180" />Remember that touching picture of Yassar Arafat donating his blood to the 9/11 victims that was conveniently published after CNN ran footage of Palestinians cheering and handing out candy to celebrate the destruction in New York? Now France 2 journalist Charles Enderlin says that photo was staged; Arafat never gave blood.</p><p>The photos were taken by an AP photographer with a history of biased journalism and given captions that read like “a press release covering talking points.” Power Line's Scott Johnson reported Enderlin's revelation in a <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/655hzspx.asp?pg=1" title="Weekly Standard">January 24 Weekly Standard article</a> (bold mine throughout): </p><blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">As Joel Pollak recounted online at the site Guide to the Perplexed [ed. <a href="http://guidetotheperplexed.blogspot.com/">link here</a>], Enderlin told his Harvard audience &quot;<b>that Yasser Arafat had faked his blood donation to the victims of the September 11th attacks. Enderlin said the event had been staged for the media to counteract the embarrassing television images of Palestinians celebrating in the streets after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks.&quot;</b></p></div></div></div>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:42:00 +0000Lynn Davidson18394 at http://newsbusters.orgDishonest Reporter 2007 Awardshttp://newsbusters.org/blogs/lynn-davidson/2007/12/19/dishonest-reporter-2007-awards
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><img name="graphics2" border="0" vspace="7" align="right" width="160" src="http://www.honestreporting.com/a/images/communiques/upload1/amanpour_christiane.jpg" hspace="7" height="209" />Media watchdog website <a href="http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/Dishonest_Reporter_Award_2007.asp">Honest Reporting has awarded their annual Dishonest Reporter Awards</a>. Some of these stories you know and some you don't--probably because they were ignored by the media. <a href="http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/lynn-davidson/2007/11/15/media-ignored-blows-dealt-terrorist-inspiring-al-dura-footage" title="NB">Some were even covered</a> here at NewsBusters. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The &quot;winners&quot; included Christiane Amanpour for “God's Warriors,” the BBC for covering up an internal investigation into its Mid East reporting, US government funded Al-Hurra TV's former 'director Larry Register for <em>dhimmitude</em>, a UNC Daily Tar Heel article about breaking up with a boyfriend because of Israel and of course Charles Enderlin and the Mohammad Al Dura Fautography that launched the Second Intifida. See how many of the stories over at Honest Reporting you know:</p><blockquote><p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><font color="#800000"><font size="4"><b>Dishonest Reporter of the Year (Christiane Amanpour)</b></font></font></p><p>This year's Dishonest Reporter voting marks a change for HonestReporting readers. Previous awards went to large, impersonal news services, but not so this year. One journalist made herself such a lightning rod in 2007 she easily defeated BBC and Reuters – the traditional disfavorites.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:56:43 +0000Lynn Davidson17705 at http://newsbusters.orgMedia Ignored Blows Dealt to Terrorist-Inspiring al-Dura Footage http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lynn-davidson/2007/11/15/media-ignored-blows-dealt-terrorist-inspiring-al-dura-footage
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><img border="0" align="right" width="240" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/AlDurrah1.jpg" alt="Iconic image of Mohammad al-Dura and his father" height="200" />Shouldn't the media cover the debunking of an event which <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2006/09/21/al-durah-in-the-arabmuslim-world-reception-and-consequences-part-i/" title="Augean Stables">stirred violent anti-Israel sentiment</a> and even became a talking point for Osama Bin Ladin? Instead, the media ignored a French judge's investigation into whether France2's 2000 report that claimed <a href="http://www.theaugeanstables.com/al-durah-affair-the-dossier/al-durah-faqs/" title="Augean Stables-- al-Dura FAQs">Israel shot and killed a 12-year-old Palestinian boy</a> is “a hoax.” <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">The famous picture of a terrified Mohammed al-Dura hiding behind his father enraged millions of Muslims and became such an iconic image of Palestinian martyrdom and Israeli occupation that it caused violent rioting, inspired some UK Muslims to commit to radical Islam and was even used in suicide bomber propaganda. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in">It took a defamation case to get France2 to fork over the raw footage, but <a href="http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2007/11/dura-discredite.html"><span><span style="font-style: normal">Media Backspin</span></span></a> reported portions are missing (bold mine throughout):</p></div></div></div>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:53:05 +0000Lynn Davidson17037 at http://newsbusters.org